Thoughts on the War for/against Comic Sans

UPDATE 3/10/13: A Word from the Creator of Comic Sans, Vincent Connare
The actual creator of the Comic Sans font, Vincent Connare, writes about the history of the font, and why it was created at Microsoft. Did you know that Comic Sans was developed specifically for the “Microsoft Bob” product but due to a mishap, it never made it into the product? It’s an interesting recap from the person closest to the font.

ORIGINAL POST:I had a conversation internally at at the company with… well… someone I’d never even met about the ongoing tussle about Comic Sans. Apparently, there is an entire segment of society that just HATES this font while there is another segment that absolutely adores it.

This is nothing new to most of you I’m certain. But what’s interesting is the lengths that people have gone to prove their pro/anti Comic Sans stance. Here’s just some of the items that were brought up in our discussion about the war for/against Comic Sans that I thought folks might find humorous to read through:

NEWS: ‘BBC: Making things hard to read ‘can boost learning’
A research study that suggests that actually using more difficult to read fonts that lack serifs (such as Comic Sans) can increase information retention.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11573666“Researchers found that, on average, those given the harder-to-read fonts actually recalled 14% more.”